This section is from the book "Encyclopedia Of Diet. A Treatise on the Food Question", by Eugene Christian. Also available from Amazon: Encyclopedia of Diet.
Very ripe berries, with sugar Rare omelet, rolled in whipped cream and grated nuts Whole wheat bread or boiled whole wheat Rich milk Wheat bran
Two or three eggs, whipped; add a pint of fresh milk, a dash of sugar, and a flavor of pineapple juice; drink slowly
Fish or lobster, broiled
Potato and peas
Junket or gelatin
Nuts, raisins, and cream cheese
Only plain water should be drunk at these meals.
Peaches, plums, or any semiacid fruit Whole wheat or a coarse cereal, cooked Whipped eggs or tender fish A whole wheat cracker
A green salad, with oil and nuts Oysters, crabs, or lobster A potato or whole wheat
Carrots, peas, beans, corn - any two of these
A Spanish omelet or white meat of chicken
A potato
A glass of rich milk
A cantaloup or peaches
Peaches or cantaloup
Two or three eggs, whipped six or seven minutes; sweeten to taste and flavor with fruit-juice A cup of junket or gelatin, unsweetened
Fish, broiled
One fresh vegetable
A potato
Corn and either peas or beans Fish or chicken Buttermilk A potato
On rising, take half a glass of grape juice and a glass of cool water. Devote about fifteen minutes to vigorous exercise and deep breathing. Before eating, take a brisk walk, thinly clad, in the open air.
First Day:
Grapes or grape juice
A small portion of plain wheat, boiled very thoroughly; serve with cream
Three fresh eggs (See Fall Menu) A cup of junket or buttermilk Half a glass of water
One egg, prepared as for breakfast Two glasses of junket or buttermilk A liberal portion of gelatin
Celery-Broiled fish; young variety - very tender A baked potato
One egg whipped as for breakfast Gelatin or junket - a liberal portion
Second Day: Same as the first, reducing - unless the digestion is perfect - the amount prescribed for the noon meal.
Third Day: Same as the second, varying the meals by changing fruits, or by adding another fresh vegetable to the evening meal; but, before adding another article, eat the full amount of proteids prescribed: eggs, fish, and gelatin.
Fourth Day:
One or two ripe bananas Raisins or figs; or nuts or nut butter Two or three glasses of fresh milk
Baked beans or lentils, with olive-oil or fresh butter
Two or three eggs; preferably uncooked
Two or three eggs, with two teaspoonfuls of sugar; whip seven or eight minutes; add two glasses of milk; mix thoroughly; drink slowly
Bran meal gems
Half a cup of bran, cooked
Fifth Day: Same as the fourth.
Sixth Day: Same as the first.
Seventh Day: Same as the second, repeating the menus for a period of thirty to forty days, varying them by selecting such vegetables as appeal most to the taste.
If the bowels should become constipated, take half a cup of cleansed wheat bran, cooked, with the breakfast, and, just before retiring, another half cup in hot water.
If possible, spend from two to three hours each day in the open air, taking vigorous exercise. Oxygen is nature's great stimulant and life-giver.
Eat slowly and masticate very thoroughly.
If there is a tendency toward obesity, sugar should be omitted from the meals entirely.
Proteid foods should predominate in the diet. The following are the most soluble and readily assimilable group of proteid foods suitable for these menus, given in the order of richness and importance:
Eggs Milk Milk products
Shell-fish Fish
Gelatin
Fowl - white meat
 
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